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Children with disruptive behaviour problems and their parents can benefit from peer-led parenting classes, claims a new study.
The Kids' Clubs Network has called on parents to press schools, local authorities and employers to ensure there is sufficient childcare during the summer holidays while they are working. Currently...
Children's minister Beverley Hughes has confirmed that private and voluntary sector nurseries will be eligible to receive up to Pounds 8,000 a year to recruit graduate early years professionals and...
Local authorities are focusing on existing provision as they start to carry out assessments of childcare as part of their new duties under the Childcare Act. Nursery World spoke to three local...
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that...
Early years organisations have welcomed the call from the education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss that local authorities must ensure Government money for free early education places for...
Traditional playground games allow children to burn off excess energy. Lynne Garner describes some modern variations we all played them when we were children, learning the rules from one another or...
Childcarers have welcomed new legislation that would place strict responsibilities on local authorities, but expressed dismay at measures to ease regulations and funding elsewhere. Simon Vevers...
Nursery chains are keen to be involved in the provision of out-of-school care, says Simon Vevers, when local authorities and schools welcome them as partners With the Government demanding that schools...